At seventeen Hayley clearly knew how unfair her situation was but with no other option she followed every command she at aunt send her way. She also had a feeling when her birthday would come around she was going to end up homeless. One day when she was sweeping the hall by the office she had heard Lana on the phone, with whom she guessed her best friend since childhood, only hearing the one sided conversation she knew when Lana said it was only two years before she would be relieved of her burden. How, the only reason she bothered was because the law prohibits anyone from kicking out a minor and she didn’t want to get in trouble with the law. At that time Hayley had been sixteen and doing the simple math, she didn’t need any more indication
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Although Hayley determined, was not going to fold so easily and kept on looking. Hours later she had come upon her first job with a lady named Margaret, she needed to repaint certain sections of fence among her property line. Since Hayley often had to do the same task on her aunt’s farm, she went right to work and had finished in a decent time that Margaret had paid thirty dollars that afternoon. The following weekends after that Hayley had done various things like mowing someone’s lawn to wash and groom five dogs in one day. Over the course of the two years she managed to save over seven hundred …show more content…
Knowing it was possibly the last time she would be in her room, sitting up in bed and slowly looked around the room. Although the room seemed hardly big enough to hold the bed, a dresser, and another few items everything fit in a mismatched manner. A small bookshelf was located in the corner filled the brim with secondhand books from small garage sales and on top of it held miniature ceramic figurines that were found in abandoned piles of bins on the road from a recent house move. The opposite corner a round blue chipped table with a white chair was occupied with a neat pile of papers from when school had ended back in the first week of May. Hayley was indeed going to miss the room that witnessed her tears, secrets and memories of growing up on the
Although Hayley determined, was not going to fold so easily and kept on looking. Hours later she had come upon her first job with a lady named Margaret, she needed to repaint certain sections of fence among her property line. Since Hayley often had to do the same task on her aunt’s farm, she went right to work and had finished in a decent time that Margaret had paid thirty dollars that afternoon. The following weekends after that Hayley had done various things like mowing someone’s lawn to wash and groom five dogs in one day. Over the course of the two years she managed to save over seven hundred …show more content…
Knowing it was possibly the last time she would be in her room, sitting up in bed and slowly looked around the room. Although the room seemed hardly big enough to hold the bed, a dresser, and another few items everything fit in a mismatched manner. A small bookshelf was located in the corner filled the brim with secondhand books from small garage sales and on top of it held miniature ceramic figurines that were found in abandoned piles of bins on the road from a recent house move. The opposite corner a round blue chipped table with a white chair was occupied with a neat pile of papers from when school had ended back in the first week of May. Hayley was indeed going to miss the room that witnessed her tears, secrets and memories of growing up on the